14 Years of Excellence on the Path to a Better Way to Work
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CONOCOPHILLIPS Third Quarter 2016 SPIRIT Awards 14 years of excellence On the path to a better way to work Where we’re • Widespread adoption of new capabilities Oce 365 going Video • Ongoing transition of work les and content Yammer Delve and other next-generation apps 2017 & beyond • Mobile device Where Oce we are management migration Groups to Intune • Transition to OneDrive, Oce Groups, and OneDrive SharePoint SharePoint Online Intune Online 2016 Where • Foundational work and we’ve enhanced security 2015 been • Microsoft Oce and email upgrade Outlook 2014 Enhanced Security 2013 Find it Faster. Visit the Oce 365 Success Center on The Mark to learn more. Access Anywhere. Collaborate Better. CS 16-0861 SHARING INSIGHTS From the desk of Ryan Lance, Chairman & CEO ON FEBRUARY 25, 2003, I PARTICIPATED IN THE INAUGURAL SPIRIT OF PERFORMANCE AWARDS as a member of the Upstream Integration Team. We were one of 36 teams recognized that year for accomplishments in 2002. Our particular achievement was for detailed planning and execution that resulted in zero upstream interruptions on Day One of the merger between Conoco and Phillips. Looking back over the years since then, I can’t help but be amazed by the incredible depth and scope of excellence these awards have documented. The infographic on the back of this magazine sums it up — more than 6,000 people recognized for their outstanding contributions. These awards and the people who have won them define Conoco Phillips as a company focused on translating its value statement into the highest quality business performance. This issue of spirit Magazine is dedicated to the many teams and individuals who were recognized with SPIRIT Awards this year for their 2015 performance. For almost two years, we’ve been in the midst of a historic downturn that continues to reshape our industry and our company. Such an environment makes the accomplishments of the 2015 SPIRIT Award winners all the more remarkable. To persevere and even thrive in the face of so many challenges takes commitment and dedication to the highest standards of professionalism. Together, we’re managing our way through the downturn and positioning the company to emerge stronger, more resilient and better equipped to succeed. Our goal is to be the best exploration and production company we can be, and with the efforts you’ll learn about in these pages, I’m confident we will get there. EDITOR’S NOTE: Celebrating all 2016 SPIRIT Award winners in a single issue of spirit Magazine required contributions from around the world. Turn to the On Assignment section on Page 64 to see photographs of the 19 global communicators who collaborated to make this special edition possible. Also of note in this issue are three dramatic Big Pictures starting on Page 4 that take us from the border of West Texas and New Mexico to the Bakken of North Dakota and China’s Bohai Bay. spirit Magazine 1 spirit Magazine THE ETCHING OF A SPIRIT AWARD: Since 2013, each Conoco Phillips SPIRIT of Performance Award — a red crystal representation of the company’s logo mark on a black crystal base — has been carefully etched at Woltman Trophies & Awards in St. Louis, Missouri. The process begins (bottom left) with layout and proofing to insure accuracy and placement of logo and text. Next the awards are stenciled with a 120-watt laser in a laser cabinet. After stenciling, the award is protectively masked. Finally, a glass etcher (bottom right) sandblasts each award. (Top) Before any SPIRIT Award leaves, it is inspected for complete perfection — the logo and letters are crisp and there are no blemishes in the crystal — before it is packaged in a custom-built gift box for final delivery to the recipient. PHOTOS COURTESY OF: WOLTMAN TROPHIES & AWARDS – SINCE 1960 THIRD QUARTER 2016 Contents 1 SHARING INSIGHTS Chairman & CEO Ryan Lance 4 THE BIG PICTURE Milky Way. Sunset on Bohai Bay. Bakken beauty 2016 SPIRIT Awards 10 Winning projects and teams in all award categories: Safety, People, Integrity, Responsibility, Innovation and Teamwork FACES OF CONOCO PHILLIPS 16 Glynis Strause, Individual Lifetime Achievement 18 Tim Homiston, Lifesaver 28 Rafael Pas Lopez, Lifesaver 30 Ossama Bayoumy, Process Safeguard 48 Bryan Dickson, Lifesaver 50 Larry McDougall, Individual Lifetime Achievement 52 IN THE NEWS A compilation of news from around the Conoco Phillips world ON THE COVER Since 2002, more than 6,000 Conoco Phillips men and women have been recognized with SPIRIT of Performance Awards. PHOTO BY HALL PUCKETT THE BIG PICTURE THE BIG PICTURE Milky Way The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has created the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the universe ever made. This SDSS telescope, located at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, is near Conoco Phillips’ Permian Basin assets in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The telescope sits on a mountain 9,200 feet above sea level, where the atmosphere contains little water vapor and few pollutants. Because the site is so high and so far from major cities, the night sky is among the darkest in the United States. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ENRICO SACCHETTI spirit Magazine 5 Sunset on Bohai Bay Tender vessels return to shore after a resupply run to the company’s offshore platforms in China’s Bohai Bay. Conoco- Phillips has been producing in Bohai Bay since the discovery of the Penglai oilfields in the late 1990s. PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICK CURREY THE BIG PICTURE spirit Magazine 7 Bakken beauty A majestic bison grazes in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, near the heart of North Dakota’s oil-rich Williston Basin. The 70,446-acre park comprises three geographically separated areas of badlands in western North Dakota. PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICK CURREY 8 Conoco Phillips THE BIG PICTURE 2016 SPIRIT AWARDS 14 Years 2015 WAS A CHALLENGING YEAR FOR THE OIL AND NATURAL of SPIRIT GAS INDUSTRY, AS THE HISTORIC DOWNTURN CONTINUED FOR A SECOND YEAR. They say that, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And in 2015, Conoco Phillips people once again stepped up to the plate. 2016 This 2016 SPIRIT Awards issue of spirit Mag- azine tells the stories of Conoco Phillips individu- winners als and teams who have, through their actions, exemplified the company’s SPIRIT Values. blaze The individual award recipients selflessly took risks to save lives, committed their hearts and new trails souls to improving their communities and world around them and went the extra step to protect company people and property. Much of this issue focuses on the project teams whose members have gone above and beyond their job requirements and worked together to blaze new trails for the company and for their professions. Some of these teams consist of a few people working together in close proximity. Others consist of professionals around the world connected by a desire to share knowledge and create innovative solutions to issues that impact their business. The outcome? Fit-for-purpose solutions that save time and money by eliminating the need for individual business units to reinvent the wheel. All of these people exemplify the SPIRIT Val- ues that have made the company great: Safety, People, Integrity, Responsibility, Innovation and Teamwork. This commitment to excellence and to helping others will enable the company to weather the current climate of low commodity prices and emerge as a stronger independent E&P company. 10 Conoco Phillips THE COVER STORY SAFETY The team worked more than 420 days and 2.35 million man-hours without a recordable inci- dent. While this is a significant milestone on its Three pillars of success own, the team also improved operational efficien- bring harmony to the cies across all activities during the same period. “We’re proud of the team’s efforts to improve Eagle Ford our safety performance,” said Seth Crissman, manager, Drilling & Completions. “We’re even It’s been said that every business is supported by more proud to have done this while improving a metaphorical three-legged stool, with each leg our operational efficiency.” representing an element critical to the business’ These improvements reduced completion unit success. The Eagle Ford Completions team credits costs from the original projected $6.5 million to a the three pillars of their stool for the organiza- current year-to-date average of $3.9 million. tion’s strong safety culture. “Our extraordinary safety performance is built Eagle Ford Completions: Seth C. Crissman (team on a culture where operational efficiencies, costs lead), Chris Adams, E. J. Britton, Robert Clark, and safety work in harmony,” said Completions James Guin, Tim Henderson, Gerald Johnson, Evan Manager Rob Clark. “Each leg must have equal Lamoreux, Juan Martinez, Randy Pickett, Huey focus to be strong and sturdy.” Rowell, Philip Taylor and Ryan Vaccarella spirit Magazine 11 2016 SPIRIT AWARDS Sage grouse RESPONSIBILITY team set out to accom- plish five years ago. In 2015, they succeeded. Conservation efforts “It’s a win-win for all protect vital habitats involved,” said Jean Sem- borski, senior environ- Animals on the endangered species list are in mental coordinator. “We danger of extinction throughout all or a signifi- partnered with states, cant portion of their range. Special measures are federal agencies and non- taken to protect and recover the species and the governmental organiza- ecosystems upon which it depends. While an tions to ensure funding, Jean Semborski important and necessary action in many cases, science and resources listing a species as endangered could make it more were available for local ranchers to improve the difficult for Conoco Phillips or other land users habitat on millions of acres of range land, elimi- to access designated areas in the U.S. But what if nating the need for federal protection.” The efforts centered around the sage grouse, a bird found in 11 western states and two “Employees from Government Affairs, Canadian provinces.